Humanity, or the rights of nature, a poem in two books. By the author of sympathy [i.e. S. J. Pratt] |
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But not content the surface to display,
Hues, habits, manners, customs to pourtray,
Her future song a bolder flight shall try,
And trace the magic powers of clime and sky,
Track Education, and Religion's hand,
And note the law that governs ev'ry land;
Observe, if Elements that cloud with strife,
Or smile in peace, most rule the springs of life;
See how from each, at work upon the mind,
Springs the diversity of Human Kind.
Hues, habits, manners, customs to pourtray,
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And trace the magic powers of clime and sky,
Track Education, and Religion's hand,
And note the law that governs ev'ry land;
Observe, if Elements that cloud with strife,
Or smile in peace, most rule the springs of life;
See how from each, at work upon the mind,
Springs the diversity of Human Kind.
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